This prize is part of the awards of the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE). Convened for the first time jointly with the Gold Medal of Architecture, with which the architect Alberto Campo Baeza was awarded; the Spanish Urbanism Prize, which was to the plan of uses of Ciutat Vella, in Barcelona, and the International Spanish Architecture Prize, which will be chosen by telematic voting among the different proposed works.
All prizes will be presented, for the first time, together on November 28, at the Zarzuela Racecourse.
Climate Museum, (Lleida)
Opened in June 2017, the Lleida Climate Museum aims to disseminate the science and characteristics of climate change. Faced with “what is considered conventional” within the museum field, the jury has assessed that “it is challenging” because the earth, fire, air and water are built from time and natural elements, with which it causes a "break with the obvious and logical," he points out in his opinion.
In the development process the Climate Museum questioned the contest program convened in 2008: within a 12,000 square meter enclosure, a 3,000-meter building understood as a closed container was requested, which had to achieve a stable temperature throughout the year between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius, and to which content is provided in the exhibition halls. As an alternative, the proposal of Gironés focused on the interpretation of the natural climate and its processes from the reflection, with which the limits of the initial program were diluted and the intervention area tripled in about 36,000 square meters. Taking advantage of the fact that the surrounding areas were classified as a green zone, a large public space was designed in which the materials obtained from the earthworks are optimized to activate the vegetation of the place and, as the climate is the object of the museum, the continent becomes the content.
When considering an inseparable framework between nature and pre-existing plots, the use of land as a topography materialized on the promenade between the sunny high plateau and the shady trough, and the native vegetation and part of the building that surrounds it act as elements in harmony that transit through the different microclimates generated.
The water and its natural cycle manage the different degrees of humidity and the air appears as a warm breeze from the west in the highlands and as cross ventilation with the pre-existing forest. The fire, from the solar radiation on the skin, and in a climate of contrasts, such as the continental one (between the high heat of the sonos and the necessary lowering of winter temperatures), is administered by alternating shadows that the ever useful deciduous tree enables.
In short, the architecture exerts a mediation in terms of habitability that facilitates the interaction between the different elements to enjoy diverse environmental and climatic sensations and contents. The Climate Museum of Lleida is one of the awarded works of the eleventh Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIEAU).
Life Reusing Posidonia (Sant Ferran, Formentera)
Awarded in the fourteenth Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) and in the eleventh Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIEAU), Life Reusing Posidonia are 14 public protection dwellings on a rental basis located in the municipality of Sant Ferran, in the Formentera island. This is a climate change adaptation project promoted by the Balearic Housing Institute (Ibavi) and the Directorate General for Energy and Climate Change of the Balearic Islands, and funded by the European LIFE + program in the category of environmental governance. Its authors are Carles Oliver Barceló, Antonio Martín Procopio, Joaquín Moyá Costa, Alfonso Reina Ferragut and María Antonio Garcías Roig, architects of Ibavi.
Its purpose was to improve the habitability of the dwellings (temperature, humidity control, lighting, flexibility of use, etc.) and offer proven data to the Administration, obtained as a result of the evaluation of a pilot building. In fact, the initiative allowed testing formulas to reduce the ecological footprint and monitor the comfort of buildings thanks to the collaboration of the University of the Balearic Islands. The project links heritage, architecture and climate change, and demonstrates that the use of traditional architecture systems and materials, usually relegated to rehabilitation, saves more than 60% of carbon dioxide emissions during the construction of the works. . In the works the dry oceanic posidonia was recovered as thermal insulation, managing to transfer that not only a house is inhabited, but an ecosystem.
All prizes will be presented, for the first time, together on November 28, at the Zarzuela Racecourse.
Climate Museum, (Lleida)
Opened in June 2017, the Lleida Climate Museum aims to disseminate the science and characteristics of climate change. Faced with “what is considered conventional” within the museum field, the jury has assessed that “it is challenging” because the earth, fire, air and water are built from time and natural elements, with which it causes a "break with the obvious and logical," he points out in his opinion.
In the development process the Climate Museum questioned the contest program convened in 2008: within a 12,000 square meter enclosure, a 3,000-meter building understood as a closed container was requested, which had to achieve a stable temperature throughout the year between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius, and to which content is provided in the exhibition halls. As an alternative, the proposal of Gironés focused on the interpretation of the natural climate and its processes from the reflection, with which the limits of the initial program were diluted and the intervention area tripled in about 36,000 square meters. Taking advantage of the fact that the surrounding areas were classified as a green zone, a large public space was designed in which the materials obtained from the earthworks are optimized to activate the vegetation of the place and, as the climate is the object of the museum, the continent becomes the content.
When considering an inseparable framework between nature and pre-existing plots, the use of land as a topography materialized on the promenade between the sunny high plateau and the shady trough, and the native vegetation and part of the building that surrounds it act as elements in harmony that transit through the different microclimates generated.
The water and its natural cycle manage the different degrees of humidity and the air appears as a warm breeze from the west in the highlands and as cross ventilation with the pre-existing forest. The fire, from the solar radiation on the skin, and in a climate of contrasts, such as the continental one (between the high heat of the sonos and the necessary lowering of winter temperatures), is administered by alternating shadows that the ever useful deciduous tree enables.
In short, the architecture exerts a mediation in terms of habitability that facilitates the interaction between the different elements to enjoy diverse environmental and climatic sensations and contents. The Climate Museum of Lleida is one of the awarded works of the eleventh Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIEAU).
Life Reusing Posidonia (Sant Ferran, Formentera)
Awarded in the fourteenth Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) and in the eleventh Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIEAU), Life Reusing Posidonia are 14 public protection dwellings on a rental basis located in the municipality of Sant Ferran, in the Formentera island. This is a climate change adaptation project promoted by the Balearic Housing Institute (Ibavi) and the Directorate General for Energy and Climate Change of the Balearic Islands, and funded by the European LIFE + program in the category of environmental governance. Its authors are Carles Oliver Barceló, Antonio Martín Procopio, Joaquín Moyá Costa, Alfonso Reina Ferragut and María Antonio Garcías Roig, architects of Ibavi.
Its purpose was to improve the habitability of the dwellings (temperature, humidity control, lighting, flexibility of use, etc.) and offer proven data to the Administration, obtained as a result of the evaluation of a pilot building. In fact, the initiative allowed testing formulas to reduce the ecological footprint and monitor the comfort of buildings thanks to the collaboration of the University of the Balearic Islands. The project links heritage, architecture and climate change, and demonstrates that the use of traditional architecture systems and materials, usually relegated to rehabilitation, saves more than 60% of carbon dioxide emissions during the construction of the works. . In the works the dry oceanic posidonia was recovered as thermal insulation, managing to transfer that not only a house is inhabited, but an ecosystem.
